Reading Music For Guitar

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Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style

Excerpt: The hardest thing for a guitar player to do is to read standard notation. For a lot of guitar players, this is something they would rather not do because it's "too hard." But if you wish to grow from just a guitar player into a musician, music reading is essential! If you decide to become a studio musician or go onto a music college or join a jazz band, i...

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Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style

Excerpt: In this lesson, we will be continuing our look at the different notes that you are going to encounter, as well as incorporate these new notes in with the ones you previously learned. The next note division we are going to look at is the Eighth Note, which looks just like a Quarter note but with a little flag on top. There are 2 ways to see this note: you c...

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Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style

Excerpt: We are now going to dive into learning dotted notes and dotted rests, as well as tied notes and slurs. The thing we have to remember about dotted notes and dotted rests is that whenever you see one, that note is held out half a beat longer than usual. So for instance, a dotted half note: Is held out for 2 and a half beats. Think of it as a Half Note p...

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Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style

Excerpt: We are now going to go through a few exercises to give you more practice with all of the things we have learned so far. The way this is going to go, is that I am going to start these off simple, and the farther you go through these examples, the harder they are going to get. So make sure that you are going through these slowly at first, at about 60 beats pe...

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Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style

Excerpt: We are now going to dive into the world of understanding Time Signatures and how they are made up. This is also a continuation of your ability to recognize and count different rhythmic variations. We touched on the 4/4 time signature in the first lesson, but now we are going to go more in depth. So, to start off, a time signature is used to signify how ma...

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Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Now, we are going to dive into the realm of Eighth Note Time Signatures, but not without a little understanding of how this is made up. We know that within a time signature, the top note indicates how many notes are in a measure, and the bottom indicates what note gets the beat. Within an eighth note time signature, the bottom number is now changed from a ...

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Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style

Excerpt: We are now going to start getting into actually reading music on the guitar, so grab your axe, cause it's time to blast off into the world of melodic reading! The easiest way that I can see of starting your journey is with the open position and more specifically, learning the open strings first, because that way, you don't have to worry about frets, or keys...

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Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style

Excerpt: This lesson is going to contain a few exercises that you can go through for practice with the open string notes that we learned in the previous lesson. These start off simple and with only the 3 string groups. The first example will use the High E, B and G strings. The second example will use the Low E, A and D strings. After going through the ones with th...

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Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Ok, peeps. Here we are going to go over the notes of the open position of the guitar, starting one string at a time, and we are going to begin with the notes on the low E string, which are the Open E, F and G notes. Shown below are where these notes are on the fretboard. Make sure that you have these notes memorized before going on to the example exercise....

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Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Ok, we are now going to tackle the notes on the open A string. As before, shown is the fretboard and where the notes are on it. Make sure that you have these notes memorized before you go onto the example. Once you have them memorized, you can play the below example, which combines all of the open strings, as well as the new notes you have learned and the...

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Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Now, we are going to tackle the notes on the open D string. As before, make sure you have these notes properly memorized before moving on to the example. Once you do, you can go to the example below. This one not only combines the notes we have learned here, but the notes on the Open A and E strings as well as the open strings. So as before, start off by ...

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Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style

Excerpt: We are now going to move onto the notes on the open G string. One thing to note is that the B note on this string is the same as the open B string, so now you have 2 choices when it comes to playing that B note. As before, memorize these notes before going onto the example below. With this example, we are once again adding on 2 more notes, so if you think...

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Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Now we are going to add on notes from the open B string. As before, make sure that you have these notes memorized before tackling the example below. For the below example, we are going to add in all the notes we have learned so far along with the 2 we have just learned. So as before, starting off at a slow tempo where you can make the least mistakes would ...

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Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Hooray! If you have made it this far, you are on the final leg on your journey through the open position. This one is going to be comprised of the notes on the high E string. As before, make sure that you get these memorized before moving on to the example. This example is going to be the toughest one yet because this is going to be comprised of all the ...

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